if youtube can't let you sort by new anymore, how are we supposed to discover the latest independently made cartoons?
Are viewbots not enough anymore, indiecuck?
>>154376900no, the robots are not enough!
>>154376874uhh you don'tjust let the algorithm tell you what cartoons are popular ok
>>154376874Genuinely why would they do this?
>>154377160how tf are complete newbs supposed to get popular now
>>154377266Have someone already established notice you and share your stuff around, I guess. Shit's fucked, I know, but to be fair it was always kind of a lottery whether you get big or not, even when you could sort videos by newest.>>154376874I think this change is like a month or two old now, by the way. Maybe longer...
>>154377405>Have someone already established notice you>having to live in the "notice me senpai" economy
>>154377177YouTube is dying, Google knows this amd that's why it's >getting overrun by jeets and AIslop>Google keeps breaking it, trying to hasten its death
>>154376874i really don't get why youtube takes away all these features that make browsing the site easier, what's even worse is their insistence on shoving shorts down everyone's throats whenever you try to look up something
>>154377579Not beg for it, exactly; like I said, it's a lottery. Sometimes, you get lucky and capture a lot of people's attention, and most of the time you don't. For a couple years now, I noticed that YouTube has been pushing sub-1k, or even sub-100-view videos near the top of my recommended. Maybe if more people watched and shared those odd videos, they'd make it to 5k, or 10k, or 20k views, or more, and the "next big thing" in indie animation will get big entirely by word of mouth.
you can still sort youtube videos by any date you wantjust search: [Subject here] before:[year]this is how i watch most of my old preferable vids.
>>154376874it’s fine, other people already got the benefits so you don’t need them
>>154376874This happened a few months ago, but yeah, cow-kissing CEOs ruin everything they touch
i wish there was a website that let you watch youtube videos but with all of the user features they removed
>>154380139This, what's stopping an Invidious instance from adding back a "sort by newest" filter?
>>154376874This happened months ago. >>154377177>>154377661It's better for high value ad package sales, I'd imagine. "Here's a video with <1000 views you can put an ad on" is a lot less valuable than "here's a bunch of videos with 50 million views", so it behooves them to force traffic towards already popular algorithmically reinforced videos and try to minimize traffic to brand new 0 view/no name channel videos.
>>154377177I assume it's to juice the numbers or the perception of activity. I notice other sites doing similar things. If you see an old post with 10000000 likes and comments but you don't notice it was posted 10 years ago then you get the impression that it's all recent activity. I am also reminded of content farms that intentionally hide or cut the date from something as a way to make their garbage evergreen so to speak.
